As he ascended the podium to welcome the renewal of Netball SAs partnership with Telkom in Sandton on Tuesday, the depressing state of SAs sporting federations may have been lost on Barry Hendricks, the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee Sascoc president.
Netball SA, under whose umbrella the Telkom Netball League which has received a further two-year backing spent the past year under a cloud after former president Cecilia Molokwane was suspended.
Athletics SA came under fire recently from parliaments sports portfolio committee, which recommended the dissolution of its board over poor financial controls, while its president James Moloi remains suspended.
